Kiddo—here's a problem. We've got witches, we've got Evil, we've got an orphan, and we've got a kidnapping. What's the deal?

Truda Hangnail was smiling, and it was not the sort of smile designed to make anyone feel happy.

I'm never going to have a crush on a girl," he promised himself. "It makes you look like a sick sheep.

The old sorceress was not given to berating herself herself, but she could not help but think she had made a mistake. Possibly the worst of her whole life.

It was a serious offense to invite a Deep Witch to cross the border of the Five Kingdoms. They had been banished many years before, together with werewolves and sorcerers.

We've never had kings in Wadingburn, and I don't intend for us to start now.

Marcus was depressingly certain that there wasn't a Dubious Person within a thousand miles.